The costume looks suitable to be either a doorman or a chimney sweep.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Or for a Broadway chorus troupe jazz hands.
Speaking of Finland- good to see they got rid of that jiving-lefty-raised-by-a-lesbian-mother Sanna Marin. There’s a conservative government in power now. Lucky Finland. Now maybe Finland can work on improving their University graduation attire.
All I saw was the Dom Deluise scene from Blazing Saddles . . .
I had to go to Twitter to disprove my assumption that this must have been skillful parody.
I have the utmost respect for the Finns, judging them by their fierce military history and the music of Sibelius. This is not helpful to my image of them. ;)) On the other hand, it’s good to know they’ve decided to try rational government for a while.
Speaking of Ph.Ds …. St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner has resigned, a few steps ahead of being criminally charged with dereliction of her prosecutorial duties. Turns out she used to be a nurse and she’s now enrolled in a rather intense doctoral level nursing course at St. Louis University:
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/05/04/kim-gardners-office-has-barely-any-staff-but-shes-busy-getting-a-nursing-degree-n548332
My guess is that she’s angling for an administrative or teaching position at a medical or nursing school where she can implement “anti-racist” policies.
Ph.D. gowns should be (and are in some cases) an indicator of four (or more) years of hard work. I intend to be buried in my Harvard crimson robe (and hope it will be large enough after 70 or more years of putting on weight).
Different strokes Bob. I long ago lost my JD robes. My ethics professor, the late and great Ron Rotunda, noted that German lawyers usually insisted on being called Herr Doktor. He then related an amusing anecdote about how his brother who had just gotten his Phd, and was unemployed at the time, was able to get them a table at a high end restaurant, by mentioning that he was Doctor Rotunda. He then demonstrated the usual title most attorneys in practice had by sticking out his hand and saying, “Hi, I’m Ron!”